Creating posters for cultural events has long been among my favorite projects! Now more than a dozen of my art exhibition posters are prominently displayed in Gallery35‘s first-ever summer pop-up show in New York City (www.gallery35nyc.com).

The posters hanging this summer were originally housed in a window as part of the gallery signage, announcing each of the 5-6 exhibits offered each season. After being taken down and stored, the posters are once again seeing the light of day. They colorfully illustrate the wide range of themes of the many art shows presented by the gallery, which has been operating as an artist collective since 2004.

Over the years I have also designed posters and other promotional materials largely for theater productions and band concerts—many of which can be viewed in both the fine arts and graphic arts portfolios on this website.

ACROSS THE DIGITAL SPECTRUM: 4 Artists—4 VisionsMarch 1 to April 30Artists’ Reception March 23rd 5-7pm

Diversity among artists using digital media to make art is showcased in this new exhibit for which I have joined three accomplished Santa Fe artists—Karen Waters, KiP Walker and Taylor Oliver. We have put together a combined body of work which juxtaposes bright vivid colors with subdued earth tones, realism with pure abstraction.

Layoring and blending photographic images is a technique shared by Karen Waters, KiP Walker and I—but with very different outcomes. Waters adds texture to her realistic photographs while Walker’s technique creates totally non-identifiable abstractions; I composite images to create abstract realism. Taylor Oliver, on the other hand, uses the camera to convert realism into abstraction, without employing digital manipulation except for color enhancements.

Specifically I am showing 8 pieces all of which have been seen in NYC but only two in Santa Fe. I hope my local friends will stop by to meet all of the artists and to see this unique show. You will not be disappointed!

For quite some time I have been creating artwork by almost exclusively transforming simple shapshots via the creative use of digital art tools that include compositing, blending and filtering, finding this process highly serendipitous and satisfying. In a departure, my newest series “Horses on the Rocks” features some elements first rendered the “old-fashioned way” as hand sketches on paper—very appropriate for inclusion in a current exhibit titled Works on Paper! The pencil sketches of the horses in motion were scanned into the computer, re-drawn using a pen tool which creates very clean lines, silhouetted, and finally blended with photographs of striking clouds and dramatic rock formations including Tent Rocks and Chimney Rock in New Mexico and the red rocks of Sedona, AZ. The fantasy manes and tails were drawn totally electronically and added to the mix.

I am pleased to show these new works at Gallery35 in New York City, in a group show with 12 other artists, all members of the collective.

My digital painting, Embracing the Unknown, was recently featured with the work of 50 other Santa Fean artists in a new exhibition sponsored by The City of Santa Fe Arts Commission. “Wish You Were Here” opened on Friday, November 4, 2017 and will run through December 4th at the Santa Fe Community Gallery.

Originally created for a self-portrait show this fall at Gallery35 in NYC, the work depicts my shadow with outstretched hands cast on the walls of a slot canyon at Tent Rocks, NM—a metaphor for all the life-changing decisions I have made despite uncertain outcomes.

The piece also directly relates to the theme of this show. Artists were asked to submit work which answers the question: “When a visitor comes to Santa Fe, what is the one thing they must experience?” Since most of my Santa Fe inspired art had very recently been exhibited just blocks away in a month long solo exhibit at the Tybie Satin Davis Gallery, I chose to show this piece which was not a part of that exhibit. Tent Rocks is a popular destination for visitors and residents of Santa Fe. The unique tent-shaped rocks coupled with dramatic slot canyons are an artist’s paradise!

In an “Upstairs Gallery” more than 30 of my fanciful montages can be viewed at The Santa Fe Public Library for the entire month of October!

Snapshots I have taken in Santa Fe and such nearby locations as Madrid, Taos, and Cerrillos have morphed into much more than they were originally. Subjects include the wonderful southwest architecture, iconic animals, people past and present and colorful desert blooms.

My desire is that this solo art exhibit will help to draw attention to the limitless potential of the digital media and that someday art “that comes out of a computer” will be as valued as work rendered using more traditional media. This is not some sort of mysterious, coded art. I am just as directly involved in the creative process as if I were painting on a canvas!

I am excited to be joining 12 other artists in Gallery35’s upcoming exhibit—Expressions of the Self—who have risen to the challenge of creating work that defines “how we see ourselves” using a variety of media and employing realism, abstraction, caricature, metaphor and interactivity with the viewer.

I will be exhibiting three expressions of my self.

A Patterned Life is an abstract arrangement of artistic elements representing the times and interests of my life: plaid for my years of teaching, coding and paint splotches for my second career as an artist, musical notation for musical and dance interests, waves for an earlier life at the Jersey shore, skyscrapers for my later adventures in NYC and a big zia for my current abode in New Mexico.

Embracing the Unknown features my shadow superimposed on one of the slot canyons at Tent Rocks, NM, visually illustrating the leap of faith that has accompanied me on each of my life transitions.

Hairs’ the Thing is a humorous look at nine hairstyles re-discovered from photos of myself from my early twenties onward. Those of a certain age will recognize the sassoon, the flip, the mullet and the Farah Fawcett among others.

Expressions of the Self: September 10 – October 23, 2016Artists’ Reception: September 17th, 6-8 pmClosing Event: October 23rd, 12:30-1:30 pm

July 1 – August 31, 2016

Meet the Artists: July 10, 11:45 am

Artists’ Reception: July 22, 5:00-7:30 pm

Four years ago, in less than 12 months, I roamed three continents, traveling first to Italy, then to Australia and New Zealand, and finally to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. The photos I took on these journeys inspired three art series:

Omaggio Al Mio Gatto in which my late cat “Ia” traveled to Italy in spirit with me;

Location, Location where I dropped some street musicians into far more picturesque—but still local—settings; and

What’s Up? of which “Hung Up” gathers together the many clotheslines seen around the canals of Venice.

Seven of these digital works now join the work of 5 other Santa Fe artists in Journeys—a summer group show.Art on Barcelona
107 W Barcelona St
Santa Fe NM.

Central to the beauty of the southwest is that unique plant—the cactus!
While we do not have the dramatic saguaro growing in the high altitude of Santa Fe, we do have three very beautiful species: prickly pear, cholla and hedgehog—which grow wild right in my downtown neighborhood.

Gallery35’s final exhibit of 2015-2016, The Spring Collection, features my interpretation of these very three cacti—artfully abstracted and color-enhanced!

I will be visiting “back east” in June and will be attending the Closing Reception of this exhibit. If you are in the the area, please stop by!

The ‘land of enchantment’—and ALL of the southwest—had been beckoning to me for a very long time, inspiring numerous artworks depicting the beauty I encountered on my many visits to Sedona, AZ and Silver City, NM as well as tours of the many majestic canyons of the region.

So enchanted was I with Santa Fe that I signed a lease for an apartment on the second day of my visit in May 2014—and moved here 3 months later!

I work well under pressure, and the bare walls of my new Santa Fe home—humongous to me after 20 years of cramped NYC studio apartments—propelled an artistic frenzy: in less than two years not only have I decorated my own space, but I have more than enough ‘Santa Fe art’ available for this solo show at Art on Barcelona!

A touch of the southwest has again arrived in New York City’s Gallery35! For the gallery’s 2015/2016 seasonal “Collection” series, I am joining 12 other artists in celebrating winter by exhibiting two of my earlier equine works—Heads or Tails and The Mane Thing.

The exhibit—The Winter Collection—opened on January 10th and runs thru March 20th. An Artists’ Reception will be held on February 6th from 6-8pm; a Closing Event will take place on March 20th from 12:30-2pm. If you are in the area, please stop by.